iOS 10 - Show only downloaded music

Does anyone from Apple Support ever actually answer any of these questions? I'd go to the "Patronise Bar" in a store but who has time for that?

This is the most infuriating development, alongside the amount of time it took me to find the shuffle toggle button. Apple is supposed to be leading the way in design, but design is supposed to improve things, and they seem to have lost sight of that.

I'm very sad to say this may well be my last Apple phone after many years with Apple since my first iPod. You've lost the plot Apple......

Now can someone from Apple Support actually di their job abd answer a question it's clear lots of people are struggling with?

Think I've worked it out.

In Library make sure you can see the "Downloaded Music" option. If you can't as I couldn't, enter EDIT mode (top right) and add "Downloaded Music" to the view. Mine has a grey bar across the top saying "Showing only music on this iPhone".

I think that might be due to a selection I made in iTunes. I must confess I don't see a way to change that setting so if you're not synching to iTunes this may not help. Maybe the selection option another user mentioned is visible if you're not synching to iTunes?

Then if you seect your playlists, albums, etc. from within the "Downloaded Music" view, rather than the main "Library" view, you will not see tunes you don't want on your phone. Huzzah!

Insanity? Yes. Oh dear Apple, I think you've finally lost the plot.

Thanks. A very simple solution.

Same problem. I have hundreds of deleted songs and I hate seeing them and the fact that I have to choose "Downloaded Music" every single time I open Music is just freeeeeeaking annoying. I listen to music on a daily basis and now, for the first time, I'm seriously considering giving up on iphone. It's such a shame since I've been a loyal customer for years.

I also have this problem which is making the iPhone and iTunes unusable. I have two playlists i use in the car and they are now contaminated with the music i have purchased over the last 10 years, some i like and some i hate.

Why are apple forcing us to always see purchased music on the phone, I don't know. but they have to change this and put the Show "Only Downloaded Music" option we used to have.

Does anybody have any suggestions for options other than iTunes for playing music.

And get rid of recently added music, or make it a viewable option, it takes up a lot lf real estate that could go to displaying controls.

This app looks like it was designed by Facebook

If you "Delete Purchased Album" it then becomes part of your hidden purchases. If you want it back, you have to log into itunes on your computer, go to your account, and unhide purchases.

I am so disappointed in this app that I have been looking very closely at the Google Pixel. Also, the lack of a headphone jack on the new iphones are making this entire infrastructure unusable. My family is all iPhones, but this direction is just terrible. I much preferred the music app in IOS 9. All I want to do is be able to manually manage music on my phone. This new app does weird stuff like download music on its own from my iTunes account. HEY APPLE, I WANT AN APP TO ONLY PLAY MUSIC ON MY PHONE. STOP TRYING TO SHOVE YOUR MONTHLY SERVICES AND CLOUD DOWN MY THROAT! Ok, I feel better.

Apple, My suggestion is to have two different Apps:

1) Music App - play music in local storage

2) Cloud Music App - Allows people to stream from the their online selections

Not everything has to be bundled together.

The new iOS 10 iTunes menu is FAR more dangerous in the car!!!! I dislike it very much.

Can I please add my voice too. I agree with everybody here. Bought my beautiful new 7 the other day...set it up and everything, and downloaded all my Metallica albums via Desltop iTunes. Go into the phone music app and i am seeing all this weird stuff...PLEASE just let me listen to my locally stored Metallica!!!

This is helpful, but it's a crappy work around when Apple used to have a toggle to switch their junk off. Where did that toggle switch go?

I am having this problem. I tried to remove all music from iTunes and it didn't work like it used to. I still have music on my phone. The next step is I went to the setttings>Music> Downloaded Music> Edit> Delete All... You would think it would remove all songs since it says 0 KB. So I go back to the music app and there's still a gig of music on my phone. What the heck dudes? Apple seems to not take any of my comments of their darn music app to heart. It's a real shame they can't read!

I have the same feelings but have been using an iPhone since the very first one. I am going to order a Pixel XL as soon as they are available.

I have been looking at the Pixel as well. No headphone jack, No Linux support, iTunes is awful, poor default apps, more emoji crap, shoving cloud stuff down my throat...I am so turned off by iPhone. They are just heading in the wrong direction, and the software is just getting more problematic.

Once you open the Music app, click on Library at the bottom, then click edit in the top right, scroll down and click ON Downloaded Music. Now when you're in your Library, "Downloaded Music" is now an option to view. In there, you will only see the content that is downloaded.